SST

The S.S.T. Band (S.S.T.???- translated as S.S.T. bando, SST abbreviated as Sega Sound Team) was sega's official band from 1986 to 1993, specializing in rock versions of soundtracks of Sega well known arcade games. Consisting of six members, the band consisted of members that includes, keyboardist Kimitaka matsumae and Hiroshi Miyauchi, guitarists Koichi Namiki and Jouji Iijima, drummer Masato Saito. Miyauchi and Saito would leave the band in 1990 and be replaced by keyboardist Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. They played songs from Sega's videogames for collection albums and in festivals.

Usually, some of these albums that were released would consists of two especially recorded versions of the game soundtrack and the rest would consist of the games original soundtrack. After the band members went their own ways, they would find themselves involvedin other Sega projects. Mitsuyoshi would be responsible for the soundtrack to Virtua Fighter, Daytona USA and the two instalments of Shenmue and Matsumae would be involved in Sega Rally and Virtua Fighter 3.

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